Welcome back. We begin with the idea. You can enjoy the movie while knowing at the same time that you created the movie.

This is the awakened state. By meaning you created the movie

I mean you are the director, the producer, the protagonist, the hero,

and the villain, and the choreographer.

The everyday world operates by opposites. There is a positive and a negative poll to every experience.

To navigate through life, people try to grasp the positive poll.

But this effort never frees them from the specter that the negative will also have its day.

The ultimate polarities attachment and detachment.

Spiritual seekers learn that detachment is positive because being attached, that is being stuck

or being clingy or buying into the illusion leads to pain and suffering. In a land

where it always rains it's hard to stop using the word wet in a world ruled by opposites. It's hard to stop

using a word like detachment. But in the larger picture, there is neither attachment nor detachment.

Existence just is.

So attachment and attachment depend on each other and therefore each leads to the

other. Bad breakup show how hard it is to detach from something or someone that you were

deeply attached to. But we have to relate. That's what the relative world is all about.

In the awakened state, things change.

You know that you created the movie,

so you can enjoy it without buying into it. This doesn't mean that you detach yourself.

Directors love the movies they make, but they also don't keep reminding themselves

that they created the movie as but they also don't keep reminding themselves

that they created the movie as they watch it.

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